Dole Expands
Marketing Team
We have been covering the transition in Dole’s marketing department. First we ran Dole Transitions Marketing Heads, pointing out that Rick Utchell, Dole’s Vice President of Marketing, would be retiring and that Ronda Reed would be assuming a new position as Vice President of Marketing for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. We followed this piece with […]
United Fresh Fills Board Seats With Dole And Chiquita Executives
United Fresh recently announced two new Board Members: Two New Directors Appointed to Fill Open Board Positions Washington, D.C. — United Fresh Produce Association Chairman of the Board Emanuel Lazopoulos has announced the appointment of two industry leaders to the Board of Directors of the Association to fill open seats formerly held by colleagues within […]
Wal-Mart Takes On Tesco
With 20,000-Square-Foot Stores
The name is supposedly “Marketside,” but maybe people will just call it Small-Mart. The Financial Times reports that Wal-Mart will open four new stores in Arizona under the Marketside banner. Each store is about 20,000 square feet and the logo — green lettering, a stylized tomato, egg and grape — all topped by a Wal-Mart […]
Avian Flu Reminder
A woman in Indonesia died from avian flu. This would make her the 270th death from the disease since 2003. The disease is typically contracted via contact with live birds. As long as the disease can only be contracted by humans after contact with fowl, it poses only a small threat to humans. The fear, […]
Setting The Record Straight
On Vertical Farming In
Las Vegas
You have to be careful of the information you get over the web. The contemporary dynamic of reputable organizations redistributing content that they haven’t vetted could lead you to think you are getting valid information when you are really being fed a hoax. Here at the Pundit, we take pride in bringing things to the […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
Canada Is On The Ball
When It Comes To
Food Safety
In running our piece, Could Canadian Hort Council’s Food Safety Training Kit Be Applied To US Growers? we gave a hat tip to Albert F. Chambers, President of Monachus Consulting, as he passed along word that the Canadian Horticultural Council is now distributing a resource kit that one could learn about here. Albert writes us […]
Sustainability And Gratitude
Our piece featuring an important letter from Tim York of Markon Cooperative concluded with our announcement of plans to conduct an industry conference on sustainability and corporate social responsibility. It was truly gratifying to get so many nice letters with offers of sponsorship, participation on the steering committee, volunteers to speak, etc. We are going […]
Pundit’s Pulse Of The Industry — Park City Group’s Randy Fields
Debbi Fields is well known for starting up the Mrs. Fields cookie shops. The success of that first shop is interesting, but for many the more interesting question is how did she grow and manage the operation so that it would successfully encompass almost 500 shops in the U.S., Hong Kong and Singapore. Part of […]
Books About Getting Kids To Eat Veggies Sell Like Hotcakes While Authors Quarrel
Missy Chase Levine, author of “The Sneaky Chef” is suing Jessica Seinfeld, and her husband, comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Jessica is the author of “Deceptively Delicious.” The dispute between the two parties has been going on for some time, and Jerry Seinfeld appeared on the David Letterman show jokingly claiming that his wife was being accused […]
Calling Bill Marler!
Does Marler Clark, home to ace food safety attorney Bill Marler, have a European office? Maybe it should set one up? It seems as if for most of the second half of 2007 Europe was experiencing a salmonella outbreak that the Europeans suspect was sourced from imported baby spinach. There were: 172 cases in Sweden15 […]
